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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79761	A solemn acknowledgment of publick sins, and breaches of the Covenant, and a solemn engagement to all the duties contained therein, namely those, which do in a more speciall way relate unto the dangers of these times. With two acts of the Commission of the General Assembly of the sixth of October, for renewing the Solemn League and Covenant. And debarring of persons accessory to the late unlawfull engagement, from renewing the Covenant, receiving the communion, and from exercise of ecclesiastick office, with their advice to Presbyteries for celebrating the communion. Together also with, an Act of the Committee of Estates of the fourteenth of October for renewing the League and Covenant	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Scotland. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4259F; Thomason E473_10; ESTC R205251	9,418	19

tendering to the prejudice of Religion and of the Covenant and of the Peace and saftie of these Kingdoms Which is so farre from the right way of preserving his Majesties Person and Authority that if cannot but provoke the Lord against him unto the hazard of both nay under a pretence of relieving and doing for the King whilst he refuses to do what was necessary for the house of God some have ranversed and violated most of all the Articles of the Covenant Our owne consciences within and Gods judgements upon us without do convince us of the manifold wilfull renewed breaches of that Article which concerneth the discovery and punishment of Malignants whose crimes have not onely been connived at but dispensed with and pardoned and themselves received into intimate fellowship with our selves and intrusted with our Counsels admitted unto our Parliaments and put in places of power and Authority for managing the publicke affaires of the Kingdome Whereby in Gods justice they got at last into their hands the whole power and strength of the Kingdome both in judicatories and Armies And did imploy the same unto the enacting and prosecuting an unlawfull engagement in warre against the Kingdome of England Notwithstanding of the dissent of many considerate members of Parliament who have given constant proofe of their integritie in the cause from the beginning of many faithfull testimonies and free warnings of the servants of God of the Supplycations of many Synods Presbyteries and Shyres and of the Declarations of the Generall Assembly and their Commissioners to the contrary Which ingagement as it hath been the cause of much sinne so also of much misery and calamity unto this Land and holds forth to us the griveousnesse of our sinne of complying with Malignants in the greatnesse of our judgment that we may be taught never to split againe upon the same rock upon which the Lord hath set so remarkable a Beacon And after all that is come to passe unto us because of this our trespasse and after that grace hath been shewed unto us from the Lord our God by breaking these mens yoke from of our necks and putting us againe into a capacitie to act for the good of Religion our owne safety and the Peace and safety of this Kingdome should we againe breake his Commandment and Covenant by joyning once more with the people of these abominations and taking into our bosome those Serpents which had formerly stung us almost unto death This as it should argue great madnesse and folly upon our part So no doubt if it be not avoided will provoke the Lord against us to consume us untill there be no remnant nor escaping in the Land And albeit the Peace and Union betwixt the Kingdomes be a great blessing of God unto both and a Bond which we are obliged to preserve unviolated and to endevour that justice may be done upon the opposers thereof Yet some in this Land who have come under the bond of this Covenant have made it their great studdy how to dissolve this union and few or no endevours have been used by any of us for punishing of such We have suffered many of our Brethren in severall parts of the Land to be oppressed of the common enemy without compassion or relief There hath been great murmuring and repining because of expence of means and pains in doing of our duty Many by perswasion or terror have suffered themselves to be divided and withdrawn to make defection to the contrary part Many have turned off to a detestable indifferency and neutrality in this cause which so much concerneth the glory of God and the good of these Kingdoms Nay many have made it their study to walk so as they might comply with all times and all the revolutions thereof It hath not been our care to countenance encourage intrust and employ such onely as from their hearts did affect and minde Gods work But the hearts of such many times have been discouraged and their hands weakened their sufferings neglected and themselves slighted and many who were once open enemies and alwayes secret underminers countenanced and employed Nay even those who had been looked upon as Incendiaries and upon whom the Lord had set marks of desperare Malignancy falshood and deceit were brought in as fit to manage publick affairs Many have been the lets and Impediments that have been cast in the way to retard and obstruct the Lords work and some have keeped secret what of themselves they were not able to suppresse and overcome Besides these and many other breaches of the Articles of the Covenant in the matter thereof which it concerneth every one of us to search out and acknowledge before the Lord as we would wish his wrath to be turned away from us So have many of us failed exceedingly in the manner of our following and pursuing the duties contained therein not onely seeking great things for our selves and mixing of private interests and ends concerning our selves and friends and followers with those things which concern the publick good but many times preferring such to the Honour of God and good of his cause and retarding Gods work untill we might carry along with us our own interests and designes It hath been our way to trust in the means and to relie upon the arm of flesh for successe Albeit the Lord hath many times made us meet with disapointment therein and stained the pride of all our Glory by blasting every carnall confidence unto us We have followed for the most part the counsels of flesh and blood and walked more by the rules of policie then Piety and have hearkened more unto men then unto God Albeit we made solemn publick profession before the World of our unfained desires to be humbled before the Lord for our own sins and the sins of these Kingdoms especially for our undervaluing of the inestimable benefit of the Gospel and that we have not laboured for the power thereof and received Christ into our hearts and walked worthy of him in our lives and of our true and unfained purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publick and private in all duties which we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord might turn away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Kirks and Kingdoms in truth and peace Yet we have refused to be reformed and have walked proudly and obstinately against the Lord not valuing his Gospel nor submitting our selves unto the obedience thereof not seeking after Christ nor studying to honour him in the excellency of his person nor employ him in the vertue of his offices not making conscience of publick Ordinances nor private nor secret duties nor studying to edifie one another in love The ignorance of God and of his Son prevails exceedingly in the Land The greatest part of Masters of families amongst Noblemen Barons

A Solemn ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PUBLICK SINS And breaches of the COVENANT AND A Solemn ENGAGEMENT to all the DUTIES contained therein namely those which do in a more speciall way relate unto the Dangers of these Times WITH Two Acts of the COMMISSION of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the sixth of October for renewing the Solemn League and COVENANT And debarring of persons accessory to the late unlawfull Engagement from renewing the COVENANT receiving the Communion and from exercise of Ecclesiastick Office With their advice to Presbyteries for celebrating the Communion Together also with An Act of the Committee of Estates of the fourteenth of October for renewing the League and COVENANT EDENBVRGH Printed by Evan Tyler and Reprinted at London for Robert Bostock at the Signe of the Kings Head in Pauls Church-yard Novem. 22. 1648. A Solemn Acknowledgement of publike Sins and Breaches of the Covenant And a solemn Engagement to all the Duties contained therein namely those which doe in a more speciall way relate unto the dangers of these times WEE Noblemen Barons Gentlemen Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts within this Kingdom by the good hand of GOD upon us taking into serious consideration the many sad afflictions and deep distresses wherewith we have been exercised for a long time past and that the Land after it hath been sore wasted with the Sword and the Pestilence and threatened with Famine and that shame and contempt hath been poured out from the Lord against many thousands of our Nation who did in a sinfull way make Warre upon the Kingdome of England contrary to the Testimony of his Servants and desires of his People and that the remnants of that Army returning to this Land have spoiled and oppressed many of our Brethren and that the Malignant party is still numerous and retaining their former principles wait for an opportunity to raise a new and dangerous War not onely unto the rending of the bowels of this kingdom but unto the dividing us from England and overturning of the work of God in all the three Kingdoms And considering also that a cloud of calamities doth stil hang over our heads and threaten us with sad things to come We cannot but look upon these things as from the Lord who is righteous in all his wayes feeding us with the bread of tears and making us to drink the waters of affliction untill we be taught to know how evill and bitter a thing it is to depart away from him by breaking the Oath and Covenant which we have made with him and that we may be humbled before him by confessing our sinne and forsaking the evill of our way Therefore being pressed with so great necessities and straits and warranted by the word of God and having the example of Gods people of old who in the time of their troubles and when they were to seek delivery and aright way for themselves that the Lord might be with them to prosper them did humble themselves before him and make a free and particular confession of the sinnes of their Princes their Rulers their Captains their Priests and their people did ingage themselves to doe no more so but to reform their wayes and be steadfast in his Covenant And remembring the practise of our predecessours in the yeare 1596. Wherein the Generall Assembly and all the Kirk Judicatories with the concurrence of many of the Nobility Gentry and Burgesses did with many tears acknowledge before God the breach of the Nationall Covenant and ingaged themselves to a Reformation even as our predecessors and theirs had before done in the Generall Assembly and convention of Estates in the year 1567. And perceiving that this duty when gon about out of conscience and in sincerity hath alwayes been attended with a reviving out of troubles and with a blessiing and successe from Heaven We do humbly and sincerely as in his sight who is the searcher of hearts acknowledge the many sinnes and great transgressions of the Land We have done wickedly our Kings our Princes our Nobles our Judges our Officers our Teachers and our People Albeit the lord hath long and clearely spoken unto us we have not hearkened to his voice Albeit he hath followed us with tender mercies we have not been allured to wait upon him and walk in his way And though he hath stricken us yet we have not grieved Nay though he hath consumed us we have refused to receive correction We have not remembred to render unto the Lord according to his goodness and according to our own vowes and promises but have gone away backward by a continued course of backsliding and have broken all the Articles of that solemn League and Covenant which we swore before God Angels and men Albeit there be in the land many of all ranks who be for a Testimony unto the Truth and for a name of joy and praise unto the Lord by living godly studying to keep their garments pure and being steadfast in the Covenant and cause of God Yet we have reason to acknowledge that most of us have not endeavoured with that reality sincerety and constancy that did become us to preserve the work of Reformation in the Kirk of Scotland Many have satisfied themselves with the purity of the Ordinances neglecting the power thereof yea some have turned aside to crooked wayes destructive to both The prophane loose and insolent cariage of many in our Armies who went to the Assistance of our BRETHREN in ENGLAND And the tamperings and unstraight dealing of some of our Commissioners and others of our Nation in London the Isle of Wight and other places of the Kingdom have proved great lets to the worke of Reformation and setling of Kirk-Government there whereby Error and Schism in that Land have been encreased and Sectaries hardned in their way We have been so far from endeavouring the extirpation of Prophanesse and what is contrary to the power of godlinesse that prophanity hath been much winked at and Prophane persons much countenanced and many times imployed untill iniquity and ungodlinesse hath gone over the face of the land as a flood Nay sufficient care hath not been had to seperate betwixt the pretious and the vile by debarring from the Sacrament all ignorant and scandalous persons according to the Ordinances of this Kirk Neither have the Priviledges of the Parliaments and Liberties of the Subject been duly tendered But some amongst our selves have laboured to put into the hands of our King an arbitrary unlimited powre destructive to both And many of us have bin accessory of late to those meanes wayes whereby the freedom and priviledges of Parliaments have been incroacht upon and the Subjects oppressed in their Consciences persons and Estates Neither hath it been our care to avoid these things which might harden the King in his evil way But upon the contrary he hath not onely been permitted but many of us have been instrumentall to make him exercise his power in many things